Server, server control method, server control program, vehicle, vehicle control method, and vehicle control program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11398151-B2
Application number	US-201916695301-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 26, 2019
Priority date	Jan 18, 2019
Publication date	Jul 26, 2022
Grant date	Jul 26, 2022

Abstract

A server includes a server communication unit, a server control unit, and a server storage unit, and is connected in a communicable manner to a first vehicle and a second vehicle via the server communication unit. The server control unit transmits an imaging start command to the second vehicle, which runs within a predetermined range from an accident site, in response to the reception of an accident notification associated with positional information on the accident site from the first vehicle, receives an imaged image from the second vehicle, and stores the imaged image into the server storage unit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A server that includes a server communication unit,
a server control unit, and a server storage unit, and that is configured to be able to communicate with a first vehicle and a second vehicle via the server communication unit, wherein
the server control unit transmits an imaging start command to the second vehicle, which runs within a predetermined range from an accident site, in response to reception of an accident notification associated with positional information on the accident site from the first vehicle, receives an imaged image from the second vehicle, and stores the imaged image into the server storage unit, and
the server control unit receives a plurality of imaged images from a plurality of second vehicles, and detects, from the plurality of the imaged images, how a situation at the accident site changes with time.

2. The server according to claim 1 , wherein
the server control unit sequentially transmits the imaging start command to the plurality of the second vehicles, and stops transmitting the imaging start command upon detecting, in the imaged images received from the plurality of the second vehicles, that an emergency motor vehicle has arrived at the accident site.

3. The server according to claim 1 , wherein
the server control unit determines a scale of an accident at the accident site, through use of the imaged image received from the second vehicle or the imaged images received from the second vehicles.

4. The server according to claim 3 , wherein
the server control unit calculates, from the determined scale of the accident, a number of emergency motor vehicles to be sent to the accident site.

5. A server control method for a server that includes a server communication unit, a server control unit, and a server storage unit, wherein the server is connected in a communicable manner to a first vehicle and a second vehicle via the server communication unit, the method comprising:
a step of transmitting an imaging start command to the second vehicle, which runs within a predetermined range from an accident site, in response to reception of an accident notification associated with positional information on the accident site from the first vehicle; and
a step of receiving an imaged image from the second vehicle and storing the imaged image into the server storage unit, and
a step of receiving a plurality of imaged images from a plurality of second vehicles, and detecting, from the plurality of the imaged images, how a situation at the accident site changes with time.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Hasegawa Hideo
• Kameda Keiko
• Ejiri Misa
• Naruse Shintaro
• Kashiwai Tadahiro
• Oka Naoya
• Koike Kensuke
• Monji Hiroyuki

Classifications

• H04N23/66 Primary

  Remote control of cameras or camera parts, e.g. by remote control devices · CPC title

• G08G1/202

  Dispatching vehicles on the basis of a location, e.g. taxi dispatching · CPC title

• H04W4/02

  Services making use of location information · CPC title

• G08G1/0141

  for traffic information dissemination · CPC title

• G08B27/006

  with transmission via telephone network · CPC title